UKIP drug policy.

I'd bet this thread will provide far more useful answers than this outdated joke.

It's not a joke. This is a forum, it's for discussion. If you want facts then you should use Google.

It's not a joke. This is a forum, it's for discussion. If you want facts then you should use Google.

While the OP might have been looking for facts, these threads tend to generate discussion about the subject.

UKIP as a party takes the same view as Hitchens, that we haven't really enforced the law properly and that we have to get generally tougher.

So it seems UKIPs drug policy is to take a puritanical moral approach to drugs, preaching that all drug use is evil, pretending the drugs war never existed, that addiction doesn't exist and that we should look to Japan and Singapore with its mandatory death pentaly for posession of relatively small amounts of drugs along with mandatory drug testing for how to go about enforcing the law.

Japan doesn't have capital punishment for drug possession.

Thats nice, Singapore does.

Singapore has the death penalty for just about everything, because it's an insane fascist state.

Quite. No surprise then that this is where Hitchens and UKIP want to look to,

If you ask me, Singapore would be what you'd end up with if you created a TSR state.

An absurd dictatorship if insecure STEMM-worshipping idiots.

Anyone any clearer yet?

Sometimes I wonder whether we'd be better off without UKIP, just simply because the population doesn't deserve them, they deserve to have the upcoming financial apocalypse put upon them and have large swaths of the population killed off, that's imo the only way to rid this country of the left/NIMBY's, because even if UKIP get a majority, it's going to have issues rolling back NIMBY laws, whether it's drugs, gun etc.

Wtf are you talking about UKIP don't want to roll back drug laws, they want to get tougher enforcing drug laws.

Not sure where you got that info,

UKIP as a party takes the same view as Hitchens, that we haven't really enforced the law properly and that we have to get generally tougher.

Farage is pro-legalization and most of the inner core are libertarians.

I asked UKIP head office. Also this:


Serious?

Nigel Farage: 'Hitchens and I disagree on this fundamentally. UKIP as a party takes the same view as Hitchens, that we haven't really enforced the law properly and that we have to get generally tougher. My own view is different. I think the war on drugs was lost many years ago. Hitchens will say it was never fought, I know. But we are where we are and drugs are now openly available not just in the streets of London, but in little hamlets and on the North Cornish coast. This isn't even an epidemic it's endemic. The history with prohibition as we saw with alcohol in America is disastrous. I feel a huge amount of crime, they call it petty crime but its not so petty if its your Grandmother is it? Who's been bashed over the head and had her handbag taken and I feel the more we can do to take drugs and the whole drugs industry out of the hands of the racketeers the better.’

Nice try...



Source: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/10/nigel-farage-drugs-and-a-major-reason-for-not-liking-ukip-.html